Sanitation worker finds dog in restaurant trash bin

11:55 AM,
Feb. 22, 2014

Written by

Spencer Roush
CentralOhio.com

An abandoned dachshund found by Lancaster sanitation workers on Friday morning in a Dumpster behind Roosters on North Memorial Drive will be up for adoption if his owner does not claim him by Monday.

A sanitation worker found the dog in the bin just before the trash was going to be crushed and taken to the landfill. The worker snatched up the dog and rushed him inside Roosters.

Roosters manager Jennifer Green said the manager on duty at the time, Dusti Thompson-Wears, wrapped up the dog in a Roosters T-shirt. Green said the dog seemed fine considering had been found in the trash. ...